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Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)
Fri May 6, 2016, 11:49 AM May 2016

Reality check on jobs..

Lets just get real here.. the old manufacturing jobs are not coming back.. coal jobs are not coming back.. even if we started to pick up on coal again.. it is so automated that most miners will never mine again.

Automation is taking over all over everywhere..not just the United States.. we need to wake up and smell the coffee.. it is all about education.. even in manufacturing..you do realize everyone we are producing at a much greater rate.. with much fewer people and that is NOT going to change..

The days of leaving high school and going to the unionized factory that gave us such good jobs to move so many into the middle class are gone..

This is a brave new world.. and looking back and trying to bring back the 50's work style.. is a bald face lie!

Even things like mail service..going the way of the dodo..



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Reality check on jobs.. (Original Post) Peacetrain May 2016 OP
Serious problem that desperately needs a mindset where we care about people over profits. highprincipleswork May 2016 #1
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